Synodic month length 29.65 days

Length of current 1089 lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 31 minutes. It is 2 hours and 40 minutes longer than next lunation 1090 length.

Lunation length longer than mean

Length of current synodic month is 2 hours and 47 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 4 hours and 16 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.

Lunar orbit position on 26 January 2088 Monday 12:00 UTC

True anomaly ∠241.2°

This lunation true anomaly is ∠241.2°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠278.3°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).

Moon after apogee

7 days after point of apogee on 18 January 2088 at 17:28 in ♏ Scorpio. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 8 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 3 February 2088 at 18:12 in ♊ Gemini.

Distance to Moon 383 021 km

Moon before descending node

9 days after its ascending node on 17 January 2088 at 02:46 in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 4 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 31 January 2088 at 03:49 in ♉ Taurus.

Draconic month

Moon after southern standstill

6 days after previous South standstill on 20 January 2088 at 07:04 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-19.974°. Next 7 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠19.864° in the next northern standstill on 2 February 2088 at 22:41 in ♊ Gemini.